Madcap (comics)

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Madcap
Madcap in Ghost Riders: Heaven's on Fire #4 (November 2009).
Art by Roland Boschi.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceCaptain America #307 (July 1985)
Created byMark Gruenwald
Paul Neary
In-story information
SpeciesHuman mutate
Place of originEarth
Team affiliationsWild Pack
Unkillables
Masters of Evil
Mercs for Money
Ghost Rider Assassination League
Notable aliasesDeadpool
Abilities
  • Healing factor
  • Insanity inducement

Madcap is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.[1]

Publication history

Madcap first appeared in Captain America #307 (July 1985), and was created by Mark Gruenwald and Paul Neary.[2]

Most of the villains Gruenwald introduced in Captain America were created to symbolize aspects of contemporary American culture and the world political situation. Gruenwald stated, "Madcap represents purposelessness, the disaffected youth of today who thinks 'What's the reason for doing anything?' The ultimate dropout generation."[3]

Fictional character biography

Madcap (true name unknown) was originally a deeply religious young man. On the way to a picnic with his family and church community, their bus collides with a tanker truck full of Compound X07 (an experimental nerve agent developed by A.I.M.). Everyone aboard the bus, including his parents and sister Katy, are killed, leaving him as the only survivor, his body mixing with the Compound. When being told of the deaths of all his friends and family, his mind shatters, his belief in a rational universe swept away.

Leaving the hospital, he attempts

Nomad tries to stop him, but Madcap uses his madness-inducing powers on him as well.[4] Nomad recovers, tracks Madcap to a shack in an old fairground at Coney Island, and defeats him there.[5]

Madcap is confined to a mental hospital but escapes. He gets back into costume and breaks up a shipment of illegal arms organized by the

cable TV show. The two film A Day in the Life of a Superhero, which is interrupted when Rose's underlings abduct Madcap. Taken to a warehouse, Madcap is tied up, beaten, and assaulted with an axe. Daredevil intervenes, but in the subsequent fight the warehouse is burned down, and Madcap ignores Daredevil's repeated appeals to get out of the fire. When his body is found, Madcap is declared legally dead but slowly returns to life while in the morgue. He returns to Dollar Bill's show.[6]

While watching an episode of the show, a bored

Franklin Richards of Power Pack decide that Madcap would be someone with whom they could go on an "adventure". Madcap agrees, but his idea of adventure is to cause chaos and confusion all over town and even go head-on to confront armed bank robbers. Katie and Franklin disapprove of his irreverent attitude, but it teaches the two pre-adolescents a lesson in responsibility.[7]

Madcap encounters She-Hulk, and she defeats him on a day when she is trying to have a quiet walk in the park.[8] Madcap is later captured by Vice and Triphammer of the Power Tools on the order of Dr. Karl Malus and is rescued by Hawkeye.[9]

The

Quasar.[10]

Madcap exercises his power at

Vault, a prison for superhumans and is stopped by Citizen V.[12]

Master of the World.[13][14]

Madcap is among those considered by

Deacon to help them assassinate Ghost Rider.[15] He then works on a mission to kill Ghost Rider.[16]

Madcap later appears as a member of the

Taskmaster to their side.[17]

Prior to the Secret Invasion, Madcap once again encounters Deadpool, and in the midst of an altercation with Daredevil and Thor, Thor's lightning reduces the two to a large pile of ash. Though it initially seems that only Deadpool regenerates and survives, he eventually realizes the two actually regenerated as one being, with Madcap becoming one of the "voices" within Deadpool's head (explaining the appearance of a new, "extra" voice in Deadpool's appearances in Wolverine: Origins and Deadpool vol. 2). After Madcap's personality asserts itself sufficiently to use his own powers in a later altercation with Thor and Luke Cage, Deadpool convinces Madcap to manipulate the two affected heroes into tearing Deadpool's body in half, with one half regenerating fully as Deadpool, and the other as Madcap.[18]

Eight months after the events of

Masacre, the Deadpool of Mexico. Madcap gained the upper hand in the brawl, which ended with him using Deadpool's own Chitaurian molecular disintegrator on himself.[19] Afterward, Deadpool found himself being "haunted" by vivid hallucinations of Madcap.[20][21]

Madcap resurfaces during Civil War II as a parasitic entity that is forcing its human host to act against Deadpool.[22][23] After luring Deadpool to the Central Park Zoo, Madcap and his host infect him with a stolen virus that Deadpool begins unknowingly spreading to the people of New York City.[24][25] Deadpool acquires a cure to the virus and locates Madcap, whose host is revealed to be Bob, Agent of Hydra. When Deadpool infers that everything that Madcap remembers about his past is a lie, an enraged Madcap detaches from Bob to attack him, and proceeds to escape under the cover of an explosion while swearing further revenge on Deadpool.[26]

After Madcap nearly ruins his Valentine's Day,

Collector, who agrees to imprison Madcap in his museum.[28] When Madcap seeks him out, Deadpool successfully ensnares "the indestructible clown" for the Collector. As Madcap is hauled away, Deadpool realizes that the victory is a hollow one after Madcap gloats that he no longer cares about ruining Deadpool's life, as Deadpool's recent dealings with Stryfe and Hydra have already accomplished that for him.[29]

Powers and abilities

Madcap possesses two superpowers, as a result of the mutagenic effects of his exposure to Compound X07.

In other media

Video games

References

  1. ISBN 0-8160-1356-X.[1]
  2. ISBN 978-1-4654-7890-0
    .
  3. Fictioneer Books
    . p. 15.
  4. ^ Captain America #307
  5. ^ Captain America #309
  6. ^ Daredevil #234
  7. ^ Power Pack #34
  8. Sensational She-Hulk series was a satirical commentary on comics; She-Hulk and other characters often break the fourth wall
    and address the writers and artists directly. The actual continuity of this issue is ambiguous.
  9. ^ Avengers Spotlight #29
  10. ^ Impossible Man Summer Vacation Spectacular #1
  11. ^ Ghost Rider vol. 3 #33
  12. ^ Thunderbolts Annual 1997
  13. ^ John Ostrander (w), Pascual Ferry (p), Jaime Mendoza (i), Joe Rosas (col), Jon Babcock (let), Mark Bernardo (ed). "Misalliances!" Heroes for Hire, no. 10 (April 1998). United States: Marvel Comics.
  14. ^ John Ostrander (w), Scott Kolins (p), Dan Panosian (i), Joe Rosas (col), Jon Babcock (let), Mark Bernardo (ed). "Misalliances! The Conclusion" Heroes for Hire, no. 11 (May 1998). United States: Marvel Comics.
  15. ^ Ghost Rider vol. 6 #33
  16. ^ Ghost Riders: Heaven's on Fire #2
  17. ^ Secret Avengers vol. 2 #2
  18. ^ a b Deadpool Annual #1
  19. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Mike Hawthorne (p), Terry Pallot (i), Guru-eFX (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White & Heather Antos (ed). "Hunt the Dork Knight" Deadpool, vol. 4, no. 5 (6 January 2016). United States: Marvel Comics.
  20. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Matteo Lolli (p), Matteo Lolli (i), Ruth Redmond (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White (ed). "Nightmare on Memory Lane" Deadpool, vol. 4, no. 8 (2 March 2016). United States: Marvel Comics.
  21. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Matteo Lolli (p), Matteo Lolli (i), Ruth Redmond (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White (ed). "Fahrenheit .357" Deadpool, vol. 4, no. 11 (11 May 2016). United States: Marvel Comics.
  22. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Mike Hawthorne (p), Terry Pallot (i), Jordie Bellaire (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White (ed). Deadpool, vol. 4, no. 16 (3 August 2016). United States: Marvel Comics.
  23. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Mike Hawthorne and Brian Level (p), Terry Pallot (i), Jordie Bellaire and Rachelle Rosenberg (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White (ed). Deadpool, vol. 4, no. 18 (14 September 2016). United States: Marvel Comics.
  24. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Matteo Lolli (p), Matteo Lolli (i), Guru-eFX (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White (ed). "Match du Grudge" Deadpool, vol. 4, no. 21 (26 October 2016). United States: Marvel Comics.
  25. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Matteo Lolli (p), Matteo Lolli (i), Guru-eFX (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White (ed). "Patience: Zero" Deadpool, vol. 4, no. 22 (16 November 2016). United States: Marvel Comics.
  26. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Matteo Lolli (p), Christian Dalla Vecchia (i), Guru-eFX (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White (ed). "Deferred Payment Plan" Deadpool, vol. 4, no. 24 (12 January 2017). United States: Marvel Comics.
  27. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Scott Hepburn (p), Scott Hepburn (i), Java Tartaglia and Irva Kniivila (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White (ed). "Heart-Shaped Box" Deadpool, vol. 4, no. 26 (1 February 2017). United States: Marvel Comics.
  28. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Mike Hawthorne (p), Terry Pallot (i), Jordie Bellaire (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White (ed). "A Space Oddity" Deadpool, vol. 4, no. 30 (10 May 2017). United States: Marvel Comics.
  29. ^ Gerry Duggan (w), Scott Koblish (p), Scott Koblish (i), Ruth Redmond (col), VC's Joe Sabino (let), Jordan D. White (ed). "Bucket List - Part Three: Beat It" The Deadpool Deadpool, no. 294 (14 February 2018). United States: Marvel Comics.
  30. ^ Ghost Rider Vol 3 #33.
  31. ^ Deadpool (2015) #4.
  32. ^ High Moon Studios (25 June 2013). Deadpool (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows) (1.0 ed.). Activision. Scene: 1. Level/area: 1.

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